[nag] feature request - possible consulting job

[Sebastian Birnbach]

Michael,

for the moment suppoort of accepted/declined would answer our most urgent
needs. Not believing my luck after reading your mail I looked again but no,
I could't find a corresponding checkbox in Nag. I also looked in the
backend database for a corresponding field but could not find one. Is it
possible that any extra modules must be installed on top of Nag?

The assignee will be "internal" in that he/she is ar regular Horde user,
the setting you proposed may not be required. Having said that, I was not
able to  "configure Nag to allow external assignees via the configuration
screen". I looked in the Administrator settings unter HTTP interface. Could
you please be a little more specific where to find the setting?

As for the consulting: having been IT consultant for some time myself I am
trying to avoid a hen-and-egg-problem. As soon as I know exactly what I
want I shall get back to Horde LLC. I will probably need a few small bits
at first and may have a larger project later on. BTW: the time horizon is a
few weeks for supporting accepted/declined in Horde and until fall for
Thunderbird/Lightning support.


  Sebastian


2015-07-13 16:56 GMT+02:00 Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:

> Quoting Sebastian Birnbach <birnbacs at gmail.com>:
>
>  Dear all,
>>
>> we are using Nag for organising work in a smaller company. We have remote
>> workers who carry out specific jobs, e.g. typing a dictate or producing a
>> CAD illustration from a sketch. To provide better
>> automatisation/integration we need at least one additional feature in
>> Horde/Nag. We realise that a feature request to the dev team would
>> probably
>> not meet our time requirements, so a paid consulting job may be
>> acceptable.
>>
>> Here is what we have in mind:
>>
>> * support of participation status for tasks (see
>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5545#section-3.2.12)
>> * complete with UI components for status display/manipulation in Nag's
>> HTML
>> interface
>> * access to task status via Nag API
>> * E-Mail notifications on status changes:
>>   new task in shared to-do list (mail to delegatee)
>>   optional: task accepted (mail to delegator)
>>   optional: task declined (mail to delegator)
>>   optional: task completed (mail to delegator)
>> * ideally compatible with Mozilla Thunderbird / Lightning (iCal or CalDAV
>> connection)
>>
>>
>> There may be more consulting jobs required *later*. For instance we are
>> looking for a way to include task deliverables when closing a task
>> (delegatee attaches the results of his work to the task and marks the task
>> as completed).
>>
>>
>> I am looking forward to hearing from you if you're interested in taking
>> the
>> job. Please share your ideas on how much effort implementation is likely
>> to
>> be, measured in consulting time and/or in price.
>>
>> Also, if there is anybody else who needs such functionality and is willing
>> to contribute to funding the implementation, please let me know.
>>
>
> There was actually already some work towards this done in Git master while
> integrating ActiveSync and supporting the responses that Outlook/Exchange
> sends in TNEF files. The UI doesn't currently include much more than the
> completed/not-completed toggle and the accepted/denied status of the
> assignee, but there is already API support for updating attendees' PARTSTAT
> from incoming iTip responses, ability to generate iTips on task
> updates/status changes and IMP's iTIP viewer was extended to display and
> handle the Task iTips (including sending the accepted/denied response). In
> order to enable it, you must configure Nag to allow external assignees via
> the configuration screen.
>
> As far as the rest of it goes, you don't mention your time frame. You are
> correct though, in that the dev team (most of which also consult through
> Horde LLC) is quite time-strapped at the moment. However, if you would like
> to discuss more specifics off-list, you can email additional comments/info
> to info at horde.org - which goes directly to our consulting business'
> ticketing system.
>
>
>
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